Wikipedia:Peer review/Dyson sphere/archive1

Dyson Sphere

In the interests of raising what I think a good article which has been fairly stable to "Featured Article" caliber, I'd like people's input as to what improvements might be made to increase readability and the article's completeness. Thank you - Vedexent 10:12, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It looks pretty good. Here's a few minor comments:

It could use a graphic for the dyson swarm concept.
Note that Stapledon in turn may have borrowed the idea from J. D. Bernal, in his work "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil".[1][2]
It could use some sort of basic explanation about why we expect the radiation to be black body peaking in the infrared.

Thanks. — RJH (talk) 02:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - An illustration would be nice, and J. D. Bernal needs to be credited as well. Two points need to be covered in the last case - why we expect it to be blackbody radiation, and why we are looking for an infrared peak (which wouldn't always be the case - just the case with Dyson spheres that have terrestrial type temperatures at the surface). - Vedexent 22:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Illustrations added - Vedexent 00:36, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the astronomy and physics article the dyson sphere was not mentioned often. It was used more as an idea for the scifi writers.Stone 20:46, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what the aim of this comment is. While the concept is largely used in science fiction, the roots of the concept are based in scientific speculation - and the plausibility of the physics of various types is explored in the article. Are you objecting to the classification of the article? - Vedexent 22:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article has undergone a bit of a "shake up" based on suggestions made here and in other places. Further comments are welcome :) - Vedexent 01:49, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]